Lamarr was an iconic Austrian actress from the 1930s and ’40s, starring in films such as Comrade X and Samson and Delilah. In addition to her career as a Hollywood starlet, Lamarr was an inventor. She is credited with inventing an improved traffic light and a frequency-hopping system that was meant to keep torpedoes on course (and laid the groundwork for wi-fi today).Lamarr is still very known to this day and was actually honored at the grammys by lana del rey.